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English
Adjective
bloodcurdling (comparative more bloodcurdling, superlative most bloodcurdling)
- Causing great horror or terror.
Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.
1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC:Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
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Causing great horror or terror